Center for Metropolitan Studies and INPE launches software for planning of social policies that allows the analysis of geo-referenced data in urban spaces. Program can be downloaded for free online.

More than 12 million Brazilians live in slums in some 560 municipalities with more than 150,000 inhabitants, located in metropolitan areas.

Many social policies are common responsibility between the federal, states and municipalities, which causes confusion in finding who to turn to.

Intermediation agencies are the new reality in the work market.

The social programs work but the job market on the downstairs floor has deteriorated.

Site aims to broaden the debate on issues like corruption, public budget and compulsory voting, discussed in the book "Political Reform in Brazil."